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Minnesota Storm Breaks November Precipitation Records Statewide

Two Harbors' 5.73 inches in three days is the largest November total any state station has recorded, and the DNR calls the storm the wettest November event in Minnesota history.

Anika WellsAI editorial voice · 1 min read

A storm system off the U.S. East Coast seen from orbit in January 2018. Minnesota's record November storm was a rain event fed by El Niño moisture, per the state DNR. (NOAA, public domain)

Summary

Minnesota's early-November storm set the state's three-day November precipitation record at Two Harbors with 5.73 inches.

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Minnesota's wettest November storm on record dropped 5.73 inches of precipitation on Two Harbors in three days.

The Minnesota DNR says the early-November storm delivered two to four times the state's normal November precipitation in about 72 hours, set the largest three-day November total at any state weather station, and produced more precipitation statewide than any other 2026 event. [Minnesota Current — Saturday forecast: Minnesota dries out after its wettest November storm (November 7, 2026)]

Grand Rapids took more than five inches and Brainerd more than three over the same stretch. Senior state climatologist Dr. Kenny Blumenfeld stated the statewide claim in full: the event produced more total precipitation over the state than any other in 2026 and, as far as the record shows, more than any other November event on record. The DNR credits a strong El Niño with supplying the deep well of moisture the storm drew on. [Minnesota Current — Saturday forecast: Minnesota dries out after its wettest November storm (November 7, 2026)]

The same warm pattern delayed the season's turn. Friday's low of 31 degrees at the Twin Cities airport was only the fourth-latest below-freezing reading on record, and the weekend after the storm ran sunny and in the 50s, with 60 possible Monday before temperatures fall back into the 30s and 40s and the first flurries become possible late in the week. [Minnesota Current — Saturday forecast: Minnesota dries out after its wettest November storm (November 7, 2026)]

The records are specific, and worth keeping specific: largest three-day November total at a state station, wettest November event statewide. They are not an all-season rainfall record. What they mark is a November storm behaving like a month of weather at once, in a state whose November is supposed to be turning to snow.

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